Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse

Description

Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process, neatly distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However, there is a fuzzy grey area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of exact repetition, understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity, is investigated from a number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and deals with a broad range of languages, including alleged 'reduplication avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives, phenomenological domains, and methodologies, and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and morphophonology, the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact repetition phenomena, and, more generally, into their status within a theory of language. The collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of linguistics, including typology. Contents List of Contributors Part I: Setting the Scene: Forms and Functions of Repetition Exact repetition or total reduplication? Exploring their boundaries in discourse and grammar Function vs form – On ways of telling repetition and reduplication apart The derivational nature of reduplication and its relation to boundary phenomena Part II: Exact Repetition in Grammar Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language A brief overview of total reduplication in Modern Japanese Affixation or compounding? Reduplication in Standard Chinese Fixer-uppers. Reduplication in the derivation of phrasal verbs Turkish doubled verbs as doubled TPs Cognate objects in language variation and change Part III: Exact Repetition in (Discourse) Pragmatics The lexical clone: Pragmatics, prototypes, productivity Sentence-peripheral Coordinative Reduplication in German: A pragmatic view Focus on repetition: On the role of focus and repetition in echo questions Repetition versus implicatures and presuppositions Exact Repetition in Tojol-ab’al Maya An analysis of two forms of verbal mimicry in troubles talk conversations between strangers and friends Language Index Subject Index